UNUSUAL CLOTHES
NEW SEASON’S FASHIONS The new season’s fashions indicate that unusual clothes are the order of the day. Gowns, reminiscent of the stage and screen, extreme and daring, are no longer the exception but the rule. Pastel shades are back, and all shades of blue are on the crest of the wave. As for coats, they are distinctly masculine in cut, with lapels of Violently contrasting colours. One, seen at a well-known man-couturier here in Paris, was cut like a black morning coat and had wide revers of purple edged with green. Another black coat nad a narrow line of diamond-shaped pink insets at the back and on the sleeves. And a pale green ensemble for dinner-wear is remarkable for its green feather sleeves.
It is quite certain that many of the amusingly far-fetched ideas that we applaud so much in dress shows will see the light of day this season. Dressmakers, for instance, simply cannot resist showing crinolines for the evening, but at private parties very few women can bring themselves to appear in them. In will, perhaps, need someone like Queen Elizabeth, who made the crinoline frock so popular during her stay in Paris, to convince us that they are possible for 1939. And even then we shall have our doubts.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1939, Page 8
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214UNUSUAL CLOTHES Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1939, Page 8
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